Western life is methodically made to sound perilous or…
Western life is methodically made to sound perilous or precarious by media spin, which emphasizes the negative aspects of developments while downplaying the positive.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Progresss Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Esaterbrook
In the book
Evolution seems to have conditioned us to believe the worst, because the pilot who assumed every shadow was a predator left more descendants than the one who assumed it was nothing. On top of that ancient bias sits a modern machine: Western life is deliberately made to sound more perilous than it is by a media that magnifies every bad development and buries the good. We are primed to prefer bad news and to feel it as more urgent than it actually is. — Takeoff Into Chaos
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